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Synchronization control apparatus and method, and recording medium

a technology of synchronization control and control methods, applied in the field of synchronization control apparatuses, synchronization control methods, and recording media, can solve the problem that robots have not yet been created

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-03-08
SONY CORP
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The solution enables robots to synchronize voice outputs with the operation of movable portions, enhancing the realism of their speech imitation and operation, making them more human-like in interaction.

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However, such robots have not yet been created.

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FIG. 1 shows an example structure of a section controlling the operation of a portion which imitates an organ of articulation, such as jaws, lips, a throat, a tongue, or nostrils, and controlling the voice outputs of a robot to which the present invention is applied. This example structure is, for example, provided for the head of the robot.

An input section 1 includes a microphone and a voice recognition function (neither part shown), and converts a voice signal (words which the robot is made to repeat, such as “konnichiwa” (meaning hello in Japanese), or words spoken to the robot) input to the microphone to text data by the voice recognition function and sends it to a voice-language-information generating section 2. Text data may be externally input to the voice-language-information generating section 2.

When the robot has a dialogue, the voice-language-information generating section 2 generates the voice language information (indicating a word to be uttered) of a word to be uttered...

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Abstract

In a synchronization control apparatus, a voice-language-information generating section generates the voice language information of a word which a robot utters. A voice synthesizing section calculates phoneme information and a phoneme continuation duration according to the voice language information, and also generates synthesized-voice data according to an adjusted phoneme continuation duration. An articulation-operation generating section calculates an articulation-operation period according to the phoneme information. A voice-operation adjusting section adjusts the phoneme continuation duration and the articulation-operation period. An articulation-operation executing section operates an organ of articulation according to the adjusted articulation-operation period.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThe present invention relates to synchronization control apparatuses, synchronization control methods, and recording media. For example, the present invention relates to a synchronization control apparatus, a synchronization control method, and a recording medium suited to a case in which synthesized-voice outputs are synchronized with the operations of a portion which imitates the motions of an organ of articulation and which is provided for the head of a robot.2. Description of the Related ArtSome robots which imitate human beings or animals have movable portions (such as a portion similar to a mouth which opens or closes when the jaws open and close) which imitate mouths, jaws, and the like. Others output voices while operating mouths, jaws, and the like.When such robots operate the mouths and the like correspondingly to uttered words such that, for example, the mouths and the like have a shape in which human beings utter a soun...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G10L21/00G10L13/00G10L13/04G10L21/06A63H3/33B25J13/00G06F3/16G10L15/00
CPCG10L13/00G10L2021/105
Inventor YAMADA, KEIICHIKOBAYASHI, KENICHIRONITTA, TOMOAKIAKABANE, MAKOTOSHIMAKAWA, MASATOYAMAZAKI, NOBUHIDEKOBAYASHI, ERIKA
Owner SONY CORP